Does Agricultural Productivity Favor Industrialization?
Paula Bustos, Bruno Caprettini, and Jacopo Ponticelli show that the effect of agricultural productivity on industrialization depends crucially on the factor bias of agricultural innovation.
Training female entrepreneurs, an effective way of spending foreign aid?
Gabriela Calderón, Jesse M. Cunha, and Giacomo De Giorgi conducted a randomized controlled trial by providing business training to small and micro female entrepreneurs in the poor, rural Mexican state of Zacatecas.
Highway construction in Spain – Quo vadis?
Substantial investments have been made in Spain’s transport infrastructure. Teresa Garcia-Milà and José G. Montalvo investigate the effect of highway construction between 1984-2000 on job creation and business creation, not finding a convincing impact.
Are sicker people more likely to buy health insurance?
Health economists Pau Olivella and Marcos Vera-Hernández test for asymmetric information in the UK’s private health insurance market.
